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Lonny Grafman is an Instructor of Sustainable Design at Humboldt State University; the founder of the Practivistas summer abroad, full immersion, Spanish language and resilient community technology program; the Advisor for the epi-apocalyptic city art projects Waterpod, Flock House, and Swale; the Chief Product Officer of Nexi; and the Founder and President of the Appropedia Foundation, sharing knowledge to build rich, sustainable lives.

Lonny has developed courses at universities in four countries and facilitated interactive workshops around the world. He has worked, and led teams, on hundreds of domestic and international projects across a broad spectrum of sustainable design and entrepreneurship – from solar energy to improved cookstoves, from micro-hydro power to rainwater catchment, from earthen construction to plastic bottle schoolrooms. Throughout all of these technology implementations, he has found the most vital component to be community.